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Daily Archives: July 23, 2017

On Tuesday, my team organized a team outing, which I obviously joined. I was quite excited because I had to miss the previous opportunity due to a power outage which crippled the entire Dutch railway network. Mind that back then I was still living in Delft and obviously the power outage had to happen on that day of all time, haha 😆 .

Anyway, the activity for the team outing this time was a GPS augmented reality city game in Amsterdam. We were split into several (six) teams and each team was given an iPad and a bag of tools to solve several puzzles. The puzzles were spread throughout the city of Amsterdam and we had to physically go these spots as indicated in the map. In some sense it was like a combination of Pokemon Go and The Amazing Race, haha 😆 . The teams were also competing against each other and we also could check our current standing at any time, haha.

It was fun! Though we (my team) felt like we were being cheated because the answer of one puzzle was wrong gramatically, so our grammatically correct answer was marked as wrong. Though, to be fair, every team got the same set of questions so at least it was wrong for everyone, haha. My team did not do quite well during the game, so our goal was not to come in last. And in the end, we came in fifth, which had it been a leg on The Amazing Race, at least we would have not gotten eliminated, hahaha 😆 .

A team outing like this was fun, though. Beside the, obviously, fun, I felt like I could learn about the characters and personalities of some of my team members, hehe 🙂 . I felt like I could get to know them better.

A haircut

Anyway, it has been more than two months since I got a haircut so it was time for another one. I felt like my hair had been a bit too long anyway.

Actually, a few weeks back I got a flyer in my mailbox about a new barbershop that was giving away some discount. But I did not feel like trying a new place this time, plus I really liked the last result of the other barbershop. So I decided to come back. This time, though, I learned from my last visit and made an appointment online since a few days before so I wouldn’t need to wait for too long, haha.

I am satisfied with the result, again, but of course no photo (yet 😛 ). Though, this second trip to the barbershop makes me miss the “complimentary” head massage in many Indonesian barbershops when you get your hair washed, haha. In this barbershop, hair wash is already included in the price (whereas in my previous favorite barbeshop in Den Haag, it was separate and I always chose not to use it, haha 😛 ). But from my two visits (and based on some people’s stories in other barbershops here), it appears that hair wash means only hair wash, here. No head massage, haha 😛 .